Medicine is currently based on standard procedures of basic medical disciplines, which in particular in real crisis situations (major epidemics, power outages, black-out and similar), appear to be inadequate because for example, in the event of energy network failure medical facilities are unable to provide adequate health care to the extent necessary because they cannot use plenty of apparatus depends on power energy. On the other hand, methods based on modern scientific acupuncture are not in a minimalist way dependent on this energy sources and are also applicable under extraordinary conditions. Acupuncture in Slovakia is for a long time based on innovative approaches and methods with using of interdisciplinary knowledge interconnection, which has been clinically proven in Slovakia, namely at the First Clinic of Acupuncture and Natural Medicine of G. Solár, Ltd., the applicant organization. Since in the further development of medicine it is necessary to take into account also unpredictable crisis situations and to develop such methods, which are in conjunction with other approaches (sound therapy, music, optimization of brain activity using neurotechnologies and support by modern rehabilitation techniques) functional also in extraordinary conditions, the project will fill the current gap in the education of healthcare professionals about the possibility of quality provision of comprehensive health care using less frequent methods in extraordinary as well as in standard conditions, which will ultimately be a major benefit for the whole medicine. Thanks to the project will be created an innovation of curricula and courses in Slovakia and other partner and associated countries, and the necessary related literature on comprehensive patient care, and bringing the latest scientific research and advanced technology information to the university and continuing medical and professional education of the health professionals. As the innovation will be jointly created by the authors and patent holders (SK, GB, CZ) to the relevant scientific knowledge within the partnership, the high quality of the produced outputs is a prerequisite. Thanks to the training, under the leadership of the best experts from abroad and Slovakia will be prepared a new generation of educators, health professionals and other professionals, who will thanks to the project possess new knowledge and competencies usable in both pedagogical practice and in health, social and educational areas. In the context of globalization of knowledge and the planned internationalization (exchanges of lecturers and students) of the provision of education, they can subsequently transfer into, for example, improved indicators of health, quality of life and well being of the population in the countries concerned.
The goal of the project was to add the latest knowledge about effective methods of prevention, diagnosis, therapy and research to disciplines, methods and technologies that are not so frequent in practice, but have significant preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic and research potential to existing study programs and professional literature intended for doctors and other health workers. Furthermore, improving the quality of teaching and practice in the field of prevention and treatment of civilizational diseases and thereby strengthening the output competencies of doctors and other health workers working in practice as well as strengthening international cooperation. The education created thanks to the project was to focus not only on supporting doctors, but also on educators, heads of education and their colleagues, as well as on researchers working in medical practice here and abroad. By addressing students in various study programs - through the created study materials and the module of the study program of the clinic - we also wanted to create space for strengthening the key professional competences of experts both in initial and continuing professional education.
We decided to implement the project on the basis of the detected absence of knowledge about the comprehensive health care at health professionals community as well as missing professional literature. These findings were based on the previous trainings provided by the First Clinic of Acupuncture and Natural Medicine G. Solar Šamorín for Slovak doctors and other health workers, as well as from communication with foreign experts at international interdisciplinary medical congresses of natural medicine organized in Slovakia. Today, the training of health workers at universities is predominantly professionally oriented. The topics of comprehensive multi-professional team cooperation in patient care are included only marginally, if at al. As well as the application of some scientifically proven less frequent methods, which have potential save a patient's life in certain situations (including emergency ones). They are rather an accidental rather than a systematic element of education. That's why we decided, in the necessary foreign cooperation, to expand the existing MoH SR accredited study program of the clinic with another module, which would reflect the latest knowledge and create the necessary professional literature for it.